6/1/2023 0 Comments A year down under richard peckStudents can then use a Venn Diagram to compare and contrast the two women. Character Traits Chart Make use of this chart to identify the character traits of Mary Alice and Grandma Dowdel.Throughout the year Mary Alice remarkably becomes attached to her strange, old relative and learns lessons she could not have learned in Chicago. With the Depression in full swing, the teenager hesitantly leaves her home in Chicago. In A Year Down Yonder, Mary Alice is 15 years old, and has been sent to spend an entire year with her Grandma Dowdel in the small, rural Illinois town. Now an old man, Joe Dowdel remembers these seven summers and the "larger than life" woman who outsmarted the law and used blackmail to help those in need. Not even the big city crimes of Chicago offer as much excitement as Grandma Dowdel when she outwits the banker, sets illegal fish traps, catches the town's poker-playing businessmen in their underwear, and saves the town from the terror of the Cowgill boys. In A Long Way from Chicago, Joey Dowdel and his younger sister, Mary Alice, are sent to spend a week every summer from 1929-1935 with their grandmother in her small Illinois town located halfway between Chicago and St.
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